bzzt bzzzzt bzzzzzt.

n.  the buzzing of an office speakerphone or intercom; see also bzzt bzzt, bzzzt.

<Bzzt .... Bzzzzt ... Bzzzzzt!!!  The annoying sound cranked in Dorian’s ears.  He felt like he was coming out of a fog as he reached for the speakerphone button.  —R. A. Cross, Caholia... When Murder Doesn’t Die.>

bzzt bzzzzzt bzt bzt.

n.  a “faint buzzing, erratic, like electricity jumping a broken circuit” (Kathy Reichs, Deja Dead).

bzzt zzzt.

(also bzzt.)  n.  the flickering of a fluorescent light.

<In school, the fluorescent overhead lights’ steady flicker and bzzt cut through me.  Bzzt.  Zzzt.  —Tom Jenks, Our Happiness.>

bzzt-bzzt.

n.  the ringing of a British telephone.

<It started Meehan awake, and he had no idea where he was or what that sound was or why he was seeing daylight through venetian blinds or why the bzzt-bzzt wouldn’t stop.  —Donald E. Westlake, Put a Lid on It.>

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